Re: Virtual Ribbon in MS-Excel 2007

  • From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:29:20 -0700

George,

Yes, works fine in Word. I checked that first. Then went to Excel and made 
sure that the virtual ribbon feature was checked in the Settings Center for 
MS-Excel 2007 but still no ribbons, virtual ribbons, still no ribbons for my 
Excel.

I feel like breaking into song.

Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George B" <gbmagoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 21:04
Subject: RE: Virtual Ribbon in MS-Excel 2007


dave,

does it work for you in word?  when i choose the virtual in excel it did not
work in word until i changed it in word maybe that is it

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Farfar Carlson
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 20:46
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Virtual Ribbon in MS-Excel 2007
>
> George,
>
> Drat. Then there's something wrong with my setup. We're both using XP
> Pro
> SP3, and JAWS 12.0.492 and MS-Excel 2007, so I don't understand why I'm
> cursed.
>
> Well maybe FS will come up with an answer.
>
> Dave Carlson
> Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George B" <gbmagoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 19:30
> Subject: RE: Virtual Ribbon in MS-Excel 2007
>
>
> dave,
>
> i go to alt h and it says home
> i then arrow down once and i get a menu with sub menu.  i do not have
> the
> buttons like when the virtual ribbon is turned off.
>
> it works like menus and not ribbons
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Farfar Carlson
> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 19:24
> > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Virtual Ribbon in MS-Excel 2007
> >
> > George,
> >
> > Still doesn't for me. Are you seeing the standard up/down menu
> > structure
> > under each tab, or are you seeing various buttons?
> >
> > Compared to the virtual ribbons in MS-Word, my Excel so-called
> virtual
> > ribbon is nothing more than the standard MS-Office ribbon. Even
> though
> > JAWS
> > 12 now articulates the ribbon areas (upper ribbon, lower ribbon)
> better
> > than
> > JAWS 11 and even does a better job of identifying the elements in the
> > ribbon, it still isn't the virtual ribbon. In fact I don't even hear
> > "virtual ribbon" when I press the Alt key, and don't hear "submenu"
> > when I
> > arrow down.
> >
> > I've reported this as a bug to FS.
> >
> >
> > Dave
> > Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose,
> California
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George B" <gbmagoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 16:29
> > Subject: RE: Virtual Ribbon in MS-Excel 2007
> >
> >
> > i just opened a excel, and turned on virtual ribbons and looked at
> each
> > main
> > ribbon, sub ribbon and their sub ribbons and all seemed to work fine
> > for me.
> >
> > win xp s p 3
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > > Behalf Of Farfar Carlson
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 15:47
> > > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Virtual Ribbon in MS-Excel 2007
> > >
> > > Anyone had any success in the virtual ribbon working? Latest JAWS
> > > 12.0.492
> > > does not seem to work with MS-Excel 2007.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > > Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose,
> > California
> > >
> > >
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